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Worst in the World: Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997

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"Wait, didn't he already do Hogan vs The Giant?" is something you might be asking. Well, I did, but because these two have such anti-chemistry that they showed up twice together on the list. Taking place five and a half months after their snooze-fest at Hog Wild, Hogan & The Giant squared off again at nWo Souled Out, another WCW pay-per-view with a dumb concept. The idea was a pay-per-view with nWo biased commentary, ring announcing, interviewing, (an immediately cool) set, and referees, and they spent the night burying the WCW wrestlers. WCW held a pay-per-view where the basic theme was "WCW sucks" Man, I wonder why this company went out of buisness? Also, why would Hogan even defend the belt on this show? Why is the nWo voluntarily giving someone an opportunity to win their belt from them. This whole show makes no sense
Match starts with lots of circling before Giant starts chopping Hogan and Hogan leaves the ring. Giant chases him, but Hogan catches him coming back in, leading to the sloppiest exchange in history. Giant and Hogan both struggle to get into position for Hogan to mount and punch Giant, and it's awkward and takes them forever. Hogan delivers some soft kicks before a double clothesline spot. Giant gets up first and works over Hogan before he leaves the ring. Jesus, this is just as boring as last time.
Giant gets Hogan back in the ring, and reverses an inside cradle into a body slam, and Hogan leaves the ring again. Hogan throws powder in Giant's eyes, and chokes him with his wrist tape. Giant regains control and gets Hogan back in the ring and hits a backbreaker. Giant goes to the top rope, but Hogan dodges a big elbow drop and covers, but nWo referee Nick Patrick delivers the same kind of count he would a for a "slow" count for the WCW guys on the rest of the pay-per-view. Nick Patrick might one of the worst referees ever. He has no idea what he's doing. Wouldn't it make more sense for him to count fast when an nWo guy is pinning. His slow count looks just as fast as a his regular count. And remember, this is the guy who f*cked up the finish of Hogan-Sting at Starrcade.
Hogan fights back and hits the big boot, which doesn't phase The Giant, bodyslams him, and hits the big leg, which Giant no sells and immediately gets up after. Seriously, like Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania XII levels of no selling. Giant calls for the chokeslam, and after Hogan grandstands forever, notices Giant isn't where he was leg dropped. Even though he walked right over where Giant was, he just now noticed. Giant hits the chokeslam, but Nick Patrick won't count the pin, first claiming Hogan kicked out, then feigning a shoulder injury. He counts this normally too, instead of slow counting because he sucks.
Giant chokeslams Patrick, and outcomes Buff Bagwell, who eats a chokeslam too. Eric Bischoff runs down from commentary and hands Hogan a guitar as Vincent (who was at ringside)takes a chokeslam (which the camera misses) and Mr. Wallstreet runs down gets one too. Big Bubba runs down and gets chokeslammed as well, followed by Syxx running down and getting one, but Hogan hits Giant with the guitar as he does it. Scott Hall & Kevin Nash come down as Hogan pulls down Giant's singlet and exposes way too much of him. Hogan breaks a wooden chair over his back, and spray paints "NWO 4 LIFE" as the crowd loudly chants "WE WANT STING!" The nWo celebrate in the ring for ages as the show ends. No actual finish is announced, the show just ends.

The Verdict

Second verse, same as the first. The match was just as boring and lacked just as much substance as Hogan & Giant's match at Hog Wild. The only difference was more botches, fails, and a f*ck finish. 

Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1.  Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  2. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  3. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  4. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  5. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  6. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  7. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  8. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  9. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  10. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  11. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  12. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  13. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  14. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  15. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  16. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  17. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  18. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  19. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  20. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  21. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  22. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  23. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  24. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  25. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  26. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  27.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  28. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  29. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  30. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  31. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  32. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  33. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  34. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  35. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  36. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  37. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  38. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  39. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  40. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
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